What does it really mean to create financial freedom—without sacrificing alignment?
In this episode, I’m joined by Stephen Vetter, financial advisor and former co-owner of two successful car dealerships, who walked away from the grind to build a life and business rooted in purpose. We talk about what it takes to thrive as an entrepreneur—from rewiring your relationship with money to protecting your business with smart, sustainable strategies.
Stephen shares how he went from selling cars to scaling a debt-free business, and now helps others build wealth with clarity, confidence, and integrity. We dive into paying yourself first, trusting your gut, giving back, and the mindset shifts that move you from hustle to intentional growth.
Whether you're just starting out or leveling up—this is your permission to think bigger and smarter.
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8kFSUwuglXc
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Transcript
[00:00] Stephen explains his entrepreneurial mindset: commit quickly, invest time and money before doubt creeps in, and use that momentum to push through uncertainty.
[05:00] He shares his career pivot from law school aspirations to car sales, which unexpectedly led to owning and running two successful dealerships. Trusting his gut and seizing opportunities defined his journey.
[10:00] Stephen attributes the dealerships’ rapid success to value-first service and breaking industry stigmas. Building trust with clients created long-term loyalty and growth.
[15:00] Beyond business, Stephen emphasizes giving back—mentorship, fundraising, and board work with children’s charities. Shifting focus outward helps dissolve personal roadblocks.
[20:00] Transitioning out of dealerships, he sought more alignment and autonomy. Travel and reflection clarified his next step: combining his passion for finance with helping people overcome trust barriers.
[25:00] On money mindset: sustainable success requires long-term focus and self-worth. It’s not about how much you make, but how much you keep.
[30:00] For entrepreneurs, risk-taking must be intentional. Invest what you’re truly willing to lose, and recognize whether you’re in growth mode, conservation, or preparing for an exit.
[33:00] He introduces practical strategies: tracking expenses for 30 days, rewarding yourself after saving milestones, and using business tools like cash-value life insurance for growth and protection.
[37:00] Stephen’s “Three Gs” framework: Generate (sales solve problems), Grow (scale wisely), and Give back (multipliers of impact and success).
[40:00] His definition of success: freedom to design his days. Tips to unleash greatness: 1) Jump in and commit fully, 2) Trust yourself through challenges, 3) Don’t take life too seriously—embrace fun and play.
Transcripts
Stephen: [:
Kelley: That's awesome.
Stephen: No. An entrepreneurial
Kelley: mindset right there.
Stephen: Absolutely. Yep. Just and jump and get to a point with no return as fast as possible because then you're forced to just keep running with this, and by the time you get the first income coming in, then that new wave of excitement comes back in and that reassurance to, yeah, I can do this. Do this. So the entrepreneurial journey is my favorite.
It's energetic, it's exciting, and that's where my passion is.
today and my special guest. [:
So we, we, we see each other regularly in person. Stephen is awesome. He's a businessman. Stephen, I like to think of you as a philanthropist 'cause every time I see something that you're doing, you're giving back to the community, whether it's with your time or raising money. I know you just came off of a big event and I, I love that energy about you and you have such a huge heart.
He's currently the founder of Advise Me. Which is a, he's a financial advisor and I know that Stephen's gonna give us some really great information today for business owners and entrepreneurs. Just excited to talk to him about his business journey and pull some lessons from that. And then also talk to him about some tips on how to keep the money in our pockets as business owners.
Welcome. Thank you, Kelley. [:
Stephen: Happy to be here. And yeah, from Newfoundland, that doesn't come out very often.
We moved out here when I was five or six years old, so you won't get an accent today.
Kelley: So awesome. So cool. Thanks for being here on an early Saturday morning. And you know what, I wanted to start with Stephen, because I met you when you were the business owner of a car dealership. And I actually don't know what your career path was before that, so maybe we could start with your journey and what you've done for a living and then how you became to be a business owner of a car dealership and then ended up to where you are today.
And I'm sure we'll pull some lessons out of your story.
Stephen: Yeah, of course. The car thing was a total fluke. That was never part of the plan. I was never a car guy. I was actually in university at the time, and the idea was law school. So I have law school in my brain, so I was about three outta four years through my undergrad.
rough bartending years in my [:
I just want to come in, sell some cars, make some money for the summer, and then in September I'm out. And he laughed and he said, okay, just show up whenever you're ready to start. Don't bother applying. Just show up. Here's what to wear. And it was probably the second week of April in 2016 and I showed up and between April and September when school started a game, I was the top salesperson across the entire group, which was five or six dealerships at the time.
year, I took over a finance [:
It was just took a real knack to it as far as structuring deals and putting these auto loans together. So I really fell in love with that side of the business. Then that combined with other leadership practices that I've been pursuing for my whole life, that really stood out to the ownership team. So within a year after that, they pulled me aside and said, Hey, we're opening a new store.
We want you to run it. Do you want partnership? And so it was just one of those right place, right time puts, put my best foot forward and fall into trust with the universe and opportunities come. It was not part of the plan. It was just totally going with the flow. I ended up owning that first dealership with four other partners, and then within two years it was completely debt free, profiting turn, turning for lots of pairs every month.
me thing, but even a shorter [:
It was never an industry that I felt really, truly just authentically aligned to. So I said, Hey, I am 33 years old at the time of leaving. So I sold my shares back to other shareholders and I said, what can I do that I can have a little bit more personal autonomy with and provide a little bit more, uh, long-term impact.
Kelley: Oh my gosh. I love your story. I never knew that, that you were starting out to be a lawyer. Okay, I have a few questions. First of all, what did your parents say when you said, I'm not going back to school
Stephen: for my whole life my parents have just scratched their heads. They, they've never fully understood the entrepreneurial path.
mentary school and then said [:
Value stability. And so they never have understood me when I say, I'm going and taking this risk and I'm jumping off all of these cliffs, and they just their head,
Kelley: oh my gosh. But it's so true. But you know what I'm curious about? Because as you share your story, I'm just thinking of the listeners because you share it, so matter of fact, yet that's a big deal.
When you have a vision here, I'm gonna be a lawyer, I'm gonna do this, a different opportunity comes your way. You step into it, it feels right, and you trusted yourself. To take that leap. That's actually not an easy thing to do for most people. It takes a lot of courage. Mm-hmm. To shift direction and, and trust that something brand new and unknown is gonna be possibly your new path like that.
think at that time when you [:
Stephen: Just pay attention. For me, it's just always been that feeling of spiritual alignment and paying attention to just what is being presented and what is coming in front of you. For me, it was in school, I was, I was always successful in school. However, I always had that feeling where I was doing it just for the sake of doing it, right.
I should be doing this, or I should be in school and doing this or getting this degree. And it was never something where I was excited about it. So I've always been somebody who just is. Its your gut, and when you get that calling and when you feel that excitement and that pull, I might not know where that pull is coming from, and I definitely have no idea where it's going to lead me.
, pay attention to it. Right [:
And it's almost like you're psyching yourself out to, to actually take those steps. However, once you start on the path, then it's really easy to feel that, that, that continuity and saying, yes, I'm gonna trust myself and I'm gonna trust the universe, God, whatever word you want to use for that, and say, yes, this is my path.
And then the other side of it is giving yourself the patience and freedom and grace to say, this might be the path for right now. However, every path just leads to another path. So don't get yourself so entrenched and rooted down that you're unable to pivot or so locked into one thing that you're unable to make changes.
e to be able to say, this is [:
Kelley: Mm-hmm. I love what you just shared because I think in the past I always thought when I made a choice, it was gonna be permanent, so it was so heavy and big when I was making those choices. And so I love that you just shared like just be open that as entrepreneurs in business, we're constantly solving problems and that means change and adaptability and flexibility and being open.
So I love that you just shared that. You know, and you're allowed
Stephen: to be permanent. It's just permanent. Maybe a year, it might be three years or five years. Exactly. This. You set a timeframe around it and with the dealership said there was an exit date it, it came sooner than I had originally planned.
ften than not, when you give [:
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Kelley: hundred percent. And I'm curious, 'cause you were in the industry for six years, that industry, that business and you guys grew quickly. What are some testaments to that? Like why did, how did you guys grow so quick? What are some lessons you learned from that business that you can take forward with you?
Stephen: So the big thing, I mean, everyone will tell you this, cars are not the most loved industry, right? You think of a car salesman, you think of a, and these are pre-owned dealerships as well, and very reputable pre-owned dealerships. However you think of the industry and the stigmas around it, and it's not.
couple hundred bucks on the [:
Um, so that was where that started from and I felt very in alignment with being able to correct that stigma in the industry. And I've been out for, uh, a year and a half now, and I still have people that'll reach out and say, how are you? Can you help this? Can you help me with this? And just point them back there and say, unfortunate that's not in cards anymore.
But that's how I approached it is, was just from a value first lens and saying, here's recognizing what your, what your. Distrusts are what your fears are, and let's address those, right? Let's really address those. Let's pull the curtains back and find a baseline where we can communicate from and understand each other, and then be able to move forward with trust.
ut. B is actually on my side [:
Kelley: Yeah. I know trust is super important too. This is what I'm hearing from what you're sharing too, like how important is it to build trust to break barriers
Stephen: in business? Huge. Huge. It should be the number one thing that you're looking to accomplish. And recognize in whatever industry that you're in, look at where the big trust barriers are, where the big disconnects, right?
Chat with people, whether it's prospects or clients, or just people that you know, friends about your industry, and figure out what the overall stigmas are Like when somebody talks about, um, about cars, everyone thinks they're going in or they're gonna get a bad car, or they're gonna get ripped off. Right.
ree years from now. And then [:
Do you have a mechanic that you trust? Let's go let them look car, right? So like little creative easy solutions that created a whole lot of trust. And then that's it puts you on the same side of the table, them. Then, so look at whatever industry you are in and just say what are the big roadblocks? What are the big hurdles or gaps that people have in trust?
And then come up with some ways to address those within. Ideally, in the first meeting, you're talking with somebody because you're really gonna have an opportunity to separate yourself from other people in your line of work.
Kelley: Yeah. So important in business, and I think that's a lesson you learn as you get into business, right?
On how to build those client relationships. That business really does move at the speed of trust. Like that saying is so true. I'm curious, Stephen. Okay. That was a big part of your journey and you're doing what you're doing now, yet. I feel like I knew you right when you were leaving the car dealerships and you went on a bit of a personal journey.
over a little bit more about [:
And then I went through my own personal journey and that's when I made my pivot. So did that happen to you as well, or, I know you left because you were looking for something that you were more passionate about, but what else was going on for you if you don't mind sharing
Stephen: For sure. And just on the giving back thing, that's something that I've done forever.
Prior to, prior to opening the dealerships, I was actually like a big brother through an organization called Falls Services. So I had a little mentee, 10-year-old that we would hang out once a week for two years we were hanging out, which was really cool. That was really rewarding. I always say that I took more out of that than he did.
t was our third time hanging [:
So that was really cool. So that's where that started. Then currently I sit on the board for River Charter of the chapter of Canadian Progress Club. So it's a group of guys and we do a bunch of fundraising to raise money for children's charities. We do a big golf tournament every year and then other little events throughout the year.
And last year we raised just shy of a hundred thousand dollars to, to for children's charities, which is awesome. And then I just recently, within the last month, took a board position with Big Brothers Big Sisters. So constantly staying involved with that, giving back, and that's something that will pay back 10 times over and you have no idea how it's coming back, right?
ally easy to sit at home and [:
And you realize, oh, this is actually really small and capable of getting over that. Getting back to the personal journey. I ended up leaving the dealerships just because as I'm sure you've heard a lot, there's too many partners. It's, and when there's so many people that are making executive decisions, direction is really difficult, and that just became exaggerated and we wanted different things out of it and we're walking different directions.
the other guys in the group [:
So I was doing the day trading thing and I was exploring other opportunities for what I wanted my next business to be, and I knew that there was gonna be a next business. And I knew it was gonna be something that I was doing by myself. I knew there was gonna be no partners in it. And so I traveled for all of 2024.
I was in Europe all throughout Europe. I was all over the US and then a couple weeks on Vancouver Island and then down as far south as Columbia. And just figuring out what is this next thing? And I looked back and going back to the trust thing, I realized, hey, I really liked. Being able to add value and break down trust barriers.
t these long-term forecasts. [:
I'm, I have my hip. Personal insurance and investment products that have done really well for me. I have the value here and look another industry that, that has a lot of trust problems with it. So I said, okay, let's start there. That's the path. So I, throughout this, I was doing some high ticket sales for organizations as I was remote traveling while I was doing some certifications in licensing and skilling up and getting everything put together on the back end.
Then months and months of brand design and starting to put the content in legal and accounting stuff together, it's, it was one step at a time and I'm somebody who says, I'm gonna make up my mind, and before I have the moment to doubt myself, I'm gonna make sure I am like on step five or six and time and financially invested, so that when that doubt comes in, I look back and I say, crap, I at least have to go through it to get this back out of it.
Kelley: [:
Stephen: No. An entrepreneurial
Kelley: mindset right there.
Stephen: Absolutely. Yep. Just do it and jump and get to a point with no return as fast as possible, because then you're forced to just keep running with it and by the time you get the first income coming in, then that new wave of excitement comes back in and that reassurance to say, yeah, I can do this.
I can do this. So. Entrepreneurial journey is my favorite. It's energetic, it's exciting, and that's where my passion is. Oh
Kelley: my gosh, I love it. We're gonna have to have you back on just to talk about the entrepreneurial journey. 'cause I wanna get into talking about money and I do wanna acknowledge you, Stephen, for all of the giving back that you do.
n business who are thriving, [:
And so my question I wanna ask first is, what do you feel separates the business owners and entrepreneurs who can grow sustainably? Keep money in their pockets from those who struggle with their own financial security.
Stephen: The biggest thing is mindset. 100% self-worth and mindset are the two biggest things, and you said the word sustainable.
The people who are very successful have a long-term mindset. They're not looking to make as much money in a shorter period of time as possible because your relationship with money. Is just that it's a relationship, right? And if you're somebody who spends just as much as you make, and it doesn't matter whether you make a thousand dollars or 10,000 or a hundred thousand dollars a month, right?
people who are able to say, [:
It has everything to do with how much you keep and understanding that money is like water and it has to flow, and it has to be constantly changing hands. Then the conversation becomes, okay, how many times can it change hands and create little mini profit centers for me along the way? Because keeping a hundred bucks under your mattress, with everything happening in the world these days, two years from now, that a hundred bucks is gonna be worth 60 in real buying power, right?
advice as well, but explore [:
Like different types of insurance products where you're able to keep that money in a growth account where you're protecting your business assets and protecting what you're actually investing in, while in a tax efficient strategy to, to keep it away from the big guy upstairs, right? Instead of just being able to focus on all of these different things, and I'm sure we'll dive into it now, but it definitely starts with the mindset of just saying, Hey, be it long-term focused and recognize that you are, you're worth it to, to keep some things for yourself.
Right. Oh
Kelley: my gosh. Such great advice I love that you just talked about the mindset, because I know we're gonna talk about some practical things yet, I just think. As an entrepreneur, I work with a lot of entrepreneurs around regulating the nervous system, for example, because I'm like, as hard as you work, if you don't have a regulated nervous system, you're, it's gonna be hard for you to attract abundance.
, but I'm just curious, what [:
Stephen: It's hugely important, and so often mindset stems from self-worth.
You look at people who come up and we'll use a couple different examples. Somebody who was born into a really wealthy family who has never had to have any tough lessons around money or understands the concept of saving or budgeting. And then when they get on their own, these people often end up in really challenging times because they have absolutely no idea the concept of what saving money is because we had to worry about it before.
funny because those people, [:
You're just asking the question, do I really need this? It's really easy, and it just, let's go on Amazon and oh, I'm gonna get one thing and then five or six items later, do we really need this? So that mindset of making yourself the priority. And saying a, I'm worth it to have money, right? I'm worth it to have a savings account.
I'm worth it to have an investment portfolio. Right? I am important enough to have these things and I deserve to have financial breathing room and financial success. That's the starting point. And then creating those habits to reinforce that. Yeah. Right, and it starts with that discipline piece of, do I really need this?
ubscriptions a month without [:
Kelley: Yeah, so true. I can go look at my subscriptions after this.
I'm sure I have a few that I'm like, apple keeps choosing me, like dinging me for stuff, and I'm like, I don't even know what that's for, but whatever. But it's hard. It's such a good point. I'm curious because I look back at my journey and I think the problem I had was I was making money, yet I never had money at the end of the month because I just kept reinvesting it in my business and I'm a bit of a risk taker.
Without looking at the details like this kind of attitude, what would some advice you would be that you would give people who are starting out in their financial journey? Some habits you spoke about? Habits? Mm-hmm. Habits to start implementing now. So that you are, for example, paying yourself first, you are, for example, other things you might suggest, what would you suggest so that they don't get themselves into a scenario like I was where every month I didn't have money yet.
I was making it
Stephen: the easiest thing [:
However, when we're going through it, we actually don't really know where the money's going. We probably eat out four or five more times. We probably go spend more money on clothes than you would ever put on a normal budgeting thing. Easy to take what you're making and put it down and say, I can't allocate this.
However, in reality and in practicality and in practice, we just as. Nature, like to be social. We like to go out, we like to treat ourselves. So the first step is just unbiased, no judgment, track everything, right? And then be able to look at that. And then we'll sit down and say, what of this is necessary, right?
do we need, and what of this [:
That's when I'm gonna go out and treat myself, or we're gonna go out and do this nice fancy dinner for date night. Right? So put it as a reward system as opposed to that immediate gratification where now you're scrounging to. Find money for your investments or your savings at the end of the month, just flip the paradigm, right, and say, use the fun stuff as a reward for being disciplined and for, Hey, you know what?
Maybe my goal is to only eat out once a week, right at the end of the month. Great. If you did that and you were eating out two or three times a week before that, you've said saved yourself hundreds of dollars, percent of that savings, and go splurge it or go reward yourself. Absolutely. You deserve that, but shift the paradigm and says.
When I do [:
Kelley: Yeah. And I'm curious because I actually, this thought just came to my mind. 'cause you're a risk taker just based on your story. Huge. Exactly. You're a huge risk, risk taker yet. What you're sharing is really practical, smart, responsible things to do with our money.
Mm-hmm. So what's your take on when you're getting involved in business to kind of like lay all your chips on the line financially versus come out of the gates always at least being somewhat responsible. What's your take on that
Stephen: as I've been on both sides of that. You're absolutely right. I'm a huge risk taker.
I recognize that my tolerance for risk is significantly higher than most. You have to be, you have to be comfortable with what you're putting on the table and recognize that what you are putting into your business, especially in its early stages, it's not a guarantee. Right? So that's it. And that question needs to be answered by on an individual basis, right?
, Hey, am I willing? To lose [:
Until it works. And that's one of my favorite words is until, because it's like, how long, how long does a baby take to walk? So it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's doing it. Yeah. Um, and, and if you're not there or if you know you're half in on something, your chances of success are going to go down.
So I recommend, for me, it's always worked to just go all in. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And it's really frustrating when it doesn't. However, that also builds that, that fortitude and that resilience to say now in the future. Right. And as we get older and as we still start progressing, it becomes easier and easier for us to keep our nest egg and keep some things off the table, so to say, right?
And so [:
Kelley: Yeah. Such to a great answer. I have a high risk tolerance too. It's paid off in a lot of ways and not in some,
Stephen: and there's some opportunities that have paid off. Paid off in spades. And then there's other ones where it's whole crap that's a pile of money that is Yep. Just never coming back. So, yep.
Kelley: Yep. And so on this, because you talked about the nest egg, so you know, obviously as business owners and entrepreneurs we're wanting to grow and scale and have our money grow and scale mm-hmm.
g, what does that even mean? [:
Stephen: Yeah. And so business owners are in a really cool position because what's different with the business owner is our income is often very unpredictable.
So you have months where it, where it's very profitable and then you have months where it feels like we're scraping pennies together. Right. Um, and that's just, that's just part of the, part of what we take on, right? Is that unpredictability. So vehicles that are really good for business owners specifically are cash value life insurance because you're able to own these policies through the corporation where the business owner or yourself, you are still the life insured.
So you're adding all this extra protection for yourself. These are really good in partnership situations. We know if something happens to partner, partner A, then maybe the other guy doesn't want to be working with the guy's voice, right? So these things can be used to fund share transfers, they can be used to, to fund other things that need to happen.
do. Is allocate extra money [:
We wanna open a new location because we've over contributed. When times are really good in the business, now we have access to that and nobody's come after gonna come after that. And they're all creditor, creditor protected and protected through probate. And so there's so many different benefits to these type of policies, and because the business has the capacity to change what they're allocating to it every month.
It's really a powerful tool for them to use while protecting everything else in the business. And then from the business mindset thing, the biggest thing is set your baseline right. Here's how much money I need for operating expenses. Right. Recognizing that, again, sometimes we need more product.
n there, and then it doesn't [:
Or adding 5% and then saying, that's our new, that's our new minimum, right? We never go under this amount. So there's lots of little tools that you can do, and it depends where you're at in the, the life cycle of your business and what the goals of the business are. Are we in growth mode or are we in conservation mode, or are we at a point where we're looking at what is the exit platform here?
Because there, there are different tools that you're able to deploy that are going to be niche and specific to, to where you're at in business lifecycle.
Kelley: Oh my gosh, I have so many. Questions based on what you just shared, and you are so knowledgeable on this. And Stephen, I know that we're gonna be wrapping up soon.
ff. This is really important [:
And so where can people find you so they can come and have these conversations? I know that once again, and you shared it like you wanna support people and you wanna build that trust and answer their questions, right? Mm-hmm. And so where can they find you?
Stephen: Yeah, so on email, Stephen@adviseme.ca. My, my website is advisemecanada.com and then Instagram also @advisemeCanada, any anywhere is good and I'm happy to have these conversations and just provide that knowledge because that's where it starts, right?
These are topics that, there's a whole lot of information that's moving around and a whole lot of different opinions, and it's really easy to just get overwhelmed and confused with. All the information overload that's out there, because the reality is there are so many different options, and the right one is the right one for you, and the right one for you may not be the right one for me.
taking into account timeline [:
And say, great. Here's the best path to get you from A to B. Then when we get to B, guess what, now we get to establish where C is, and it's probably going to change, right? Mm-hmm. So having somebody who's just gonna be able to hold your hand and support you and recognize that, what are your goals as an individual?
What are your goals as a business? And be able to get you just down from A to B, right? Let's get these goals done, and then let's reassess, because that's when things really start to get exciting.
Kelley: Yeah, I love that. And so everybody go and reach out to Stephen and get a consultation, because honestly, what you're saying is so true too.
ogged down by information, I [:
And as you shared, it's gonna be individualistic. Right for each person. That being said, I'm curious, just as we we start to wrap up, what would be a financial strategy or habit that you believe every business owner should implement no matter where, what stage they're at in their, in the game?
Stephen: For business and business especially, I just love the three Gs.
It's generates, right? Every problem that you'll ever have in your business is solved by more sales. More sales are the answer. That's the cure all. It is going to fix every problem that you've ever had. So first is generate. The second is grow. So take what you're doing and we have a baseline. Anything above the baseline, we're growing, right?
, as in more marketing, more [:
Then the third is give back just to complete that cycle, and it's when you start giving back, that's when the real re return starts coming because that's where the multipliers start coming.
Kelley: I love it. The three Gs generate, grow, and give back. Awesome. Stephen. Okay, so a few questions. Number one, you're at a new stage in your life.
You're still very young, by the way, to have done everything you've done.
Stephen: I'm, I turned 35 and in a month from now. Yeah.
Kelley: Okay. There you go. There you go. Yeah. You're still very many chapters ahead of you. Yeah. What would you say now would be your definition of success?
Stephen: Being able to wake up and define what my day looks like.
set myself up for a win. But [:
And just say, what does my day look like? What would a perfect day look like for me? And not feeling like I have to be rushed or dragged to show up somewhere nine to five or show up somewhere for other people. Having that autonomy of Here's what I want to do is success for me right now.
Kelley: I love that. I love that we're driven by freedom.
A lot of us entrepreneurs, right? That freedom lifestyle. It's so funny
Stephen: because I'd rather work 22 hours a day for myself than eight hours a day for somebody.
Kelley: Yeah, right.
Stephen: As long as, and I've turned down since. Since leaving the dealerships, I've turned down a bunch of really good offers and I ask, and there's a few reasons for that.
However, I ask, I'm like, okay, do I have to be somewhere regularly and do I have to put in a slip that says, can I take this time off?
o the point is know what you [:
The choices become easier.
Stephen: Absolutely. And the more you go through it and the more risk that you take, you trust yourself more and more. Yeah. And you recognize that if I make this decision, it's on me. I gotta put the work in. I gotta hustle, I gotta grind, I have to do the things. However, the more you do that and succeed, the easier it gets to trust yourself.
Kelley: So true. Okay, last question, my friend. My tagline is called Unleashing greatness within. And so what would three tips be that you would give the listeners to unleash their inner greatness?
Stephen: Oh, when you get an idea, jump on it and get so invested in it time and money wise that you can't turn back. That's it.
That's how I've done everything. Just this one.
Kelley: Mic drop. That's it.
ortitude to push through it, [:
Kelley: Oh my gosh,
Stephen: that's the biggest thing. And just trust yourself, right? Trust yourself along the way. And then lastly. Don't take shit so seriously. Have fun. It's a journey, and if you look at it as a stressful, chaotic thing, you're going to find stress and chaos, right? If you embrace the chaos, have some fun with that
Kelley: big time.
Me and my friend, were just talking yesterday. We said our new motto is fun and play.
Stephen: I love it. I love that so much. Stephen. Thanks for
Kelley: being here. Just really appreciate you. I could just talk to you. I could drink our coffees and talk to you all morning, but I know you've gotta run and we'll definitely have you back on down the road yet.
I just wanted to have you on so people could get to know you and get a sense of your character and just how genuine you are that you really do wanna serve people and support them with their finances. And having been on both sides of my finances being a disaster, and them now improving and getting better, I want that for people who are going into business, right?
can be proactive with their [:
And I know that you're the guy to do that. So just thanks for being on here today.
Stephen: Thank you, Kelley. It's always a pleasure chatting with you. It's just so warm and welcoming all the time. Outward focus. Ever since I've known you, you're on this mission and helping people everywhere you go. It's amazing to be here.
I can't wait to be back to, to continue that conversation and it's amazing to see what you're doing here, so keep going.
Kelley: Awesome. Thanks my friend. Have an awesome day.
Stephen: You too.
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